{"id":39203,"date":"2018-04-27T16:00:38","date_gmt":"2018-04-27T06:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/billmitchell.org\/blog\/?p=39203"},"modified":"2018-04-27T16:00:38","modified_gmt":"2018-04-27T06:00:38","slug":"the-weekend-quiz-april-28-29-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/billmitchell.org\/blog\/?p=39203","title":{"rendered":"The Weekend Quiz &#8211; April 28-29, 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tWelcome to <strong>The Weekend Quiz<\/strong>. The quiz tests whether you have been paying attention or not to the blogs I post. See how you go with the following questions. Your results are only known to you and no records are retained.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<h4>Quiz #475<\/h4><ul>\n<li>1. Modern Monetary Theory teaches us that one of the dangers of public deficits is that they can crowd out private spending.<\/li><ul><li>False<\/li><li>True<\/li><\/ul>\n<li>2. National accounting shows us that a government surplus equals a non-government deficit. But that doesn&apos;t mean that if fiscal austerity ends up generating a fiscal surplus that households and firms will be running deficits.<\/li><ul><li>False<\/li><li>True<\/li><\/ul>\n<li>3. The payment of a positive interest return by the central bank on overnight bank reserves does not eliminate the need for it to conduct open market operations to ensure its policy rate is sustained (ignore any reserve requirements). <\/li><ul><li>False<\/li><li>True<\/li><\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n\n\t<h3>Sorry, quiz 475 is now closed.<\/h3>\n\t<p> You can find the answers and discussion <a href=\"\/blog\/?p=39201\">here<\/a><\/p>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to The Weekend Quiz. The quiz tests whether you have been paying attention or not to the blogs I post. See how you go with the following questions. Your results are only known to you and no records are retained.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-saturday-quiz","entry","no-media"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/billmitchell.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/billmitchell.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/billmitchell.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billmitchell.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billmitchell.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/billmitchell.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39203\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/billmitchell.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billmitchell.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billmitchell.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}